Strategic Product Manager — TEA

Job Title Strategic Product Manager — TEA Location(s)

High Wycombe, United Kingdom - Remote

Perkin Elmer is seeking a Strategic Product Manager - TEA to serve as the full strategic and commercial owner of product segment within the analytical instrument business units. This is a purpose-built strategic leadership role. Reporting to the VP Materials Characterisation, the Strategic Product Manager holds end-to-end accountability for the product segment's roadmap, commercial positioning, pricing strategy, and P&L contribution. This role is structurally protected from operational distraction.

Day-to-day portfolio execution — quality escalations, SKU management, supply chain issues — is managed by a dedicated Operations Product Manager. This design ensures the Strategic Product Manager can focus entirely on what creates long-term value: the evidence-based product strategy, NPI business cases, and commercial positioning that drive revenue growth and durable competitive differentiation.

We are offering a hybrid working contract split between home and our offices in High Wycombe.

• Product Strategy & Roadmap Define and own the 3–5 year product roadmap for the assigned product segment — prioritisation, sequencing, and investment trade-off decisions across instruments, consumables, and software Develop rigorous NPI business cases: market sizing, competitive positioning, financial modelling, and customer value quantification — to a standard that supports VP and CTO gate approval Own gate progression for all NPIs within the segment from concept through commercial launch approval Translate Market Requirements Documents from Strategic Segment Managers into specific product requirements and R&D briefs Drive the long-term technology roadmap in close collaboration with R&D leadership — ensuring the portfolio maintains competitive and technical leadership in priority markets
• Voice of Customer & Market Intelligence Build and maintain a structured VOC programme for the product segment — a minimum of 20 in-depth customer conversations per year, focused on requirements validation, competitive intelligence, and pricing research Work in partnership with Strategic Segment Managers to ensure segment-level market requirements are understood and prioritised across the product segment's key end markets Monitor the competitive landscape continuously — new instrument introductions, pricing moves, partnership activity — and translate intelligence into positioning and roadmap responses
• Pricing & Financial Performance Own global base pricing strategy for the product segment — setting, communicating, and periodically reviewing instrument and consumable pricing with VP Product Line approval Manage the product segment's P&L contribution in partnership with the VP — tracking revenue, gross margin, and portfolio profitability against AOP targets Support AOP planning with NPI revenue projections, volume forecasts, and portfolio investment requirements
• Team Leadership Lead and develop NPI PMs and the Operations PM within the product segment team — setting clear role expectations, performance objectives, and development plans Coach NPI PMs to develop strong business case skills, customer interviewing capability, and commercial programme discipline Build a team culture focused on customer insight, strategic rigour, and commercial accountability Ensure clean handoffs between NPI PM (launch responsibility) and Operations PM (ongoing portfolio execution) — maintaining role clarity and avoiding scope creep
• Cross-functional Collaboration Partner with the VP Product Line on portfolio investment prioritisation, AOP planning, and executive gate reviews Work closely with R&D to translate commercial…